Love & Pain
I suffered a number of heartbreaks in my youth. None however was as severe and devastating as the heartbreaks caused by my support for a certain football club. For several years it was harrowing. Read more
Inspiration
Lean Lagos
Insecurity has been driven out of Lagos with effect from 1st February 2020. Without wasting tax payers money to fund ‘Amotekun’, the state government has found an ingenuous way of making the city Read more
Are you Honorably Honorable?
My first car was a Datsun 180k. At the time I bought it from Mr. Harrison Ojubuyi at Ijeh in 1986, it was already fit for the junkyard. Except that I did not see it for what it was. I was in such Read more
Good Ebening
Moments after trashing Roma in the Semi finals of the 2021 Europa League soccer pundits predicted that the Europa trophy was destined for the city of Manchester. Expert and amateur analysts made Read more
Bolorunduro
I can’t recall the last time I wittingly walked in the rain. I did tonight. It was fun. One hour forty five minutes of rain soaked fun. One hundred and five minutes of solitude. No telephone Read more
The road to Golgotha
Act 1. Scene 1. Armed bandits made Kaduna/Abuja highway unsafe. Dealing in hundreds of high and low profile hostage takings in exchange for handsome rewards. Outcome: No arrest, no Read more
The Principle of Small Pieces
Everyone who has ever cooked with firewood understands that when you chop wood into small pieces, it will ignite and burn faster than larger pieces of wood. This principle is applied to the Read more
This is unreal
Let me start by sounding a note of warning. What you are about to read is not real. It was neither written nor conceived. You could be dreaming, hallucinating or floating in a state of trance. So Read more
Old firewood no dey quench fire
A friend of mine, an American returnee who was once a commissioner in Rivers State shared an experience with me a few years back. As commissioner, he supervised a ministry that dispensed favors Read more